Irish man Myles Walter Keogh had a short life but one that was filled with adventure and military glory, from Italy to the US. A hero of the US Civil War.

Myles Keogh is commemorated by a monument in Leighlinbridge, and his name is inscribed on the Little Big Horn battlefield ...

One letter from Keogh to his sister Ellen was written from Atlanta during the Civil War. He tells of his experiences after two months as a prisoner of war.

When I checked the meaning of those three letters Bvt, I learned that Myles Keogh got a field promotion called a brevet on two occasions for gallantry during the American Civil War; and behind ...

Keogh, who was born Ireland, previously fought in the papal army in Italy and earned a medal for heroism. He came to America to fight in the Civil War and caught the eye of Custer.

One man is directly related to two popular trivia questions: "Name the only survivor of Col. George Armstrong Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Big Horn" and "During the time of Custer ...

Keogh was a cavalry officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war, Keogh remained in the regular United States Army as commander of I Troop of the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George ...

Myles Walter Keogh was a restless spirit who often found himself in the vanguard of history. During his all too short life, he would make the Vatican his home, come within a hair's breadth of ...

One of 11 children, Myles Walter Keogh was born at Orchard in Leighlinbridge on March 25, 1840, and was an Irish soldier who fought in the Pope's Irish Battalion during the Papal War of 1860 ...